Not far off, the legendary Bonneville Speedway underwater, because it had rained the day before we visited:

Insane people driving through the salt water on the Speedway. We saw sedans, a UHaul truck and a pickup truck towing a trailer roaring through the water kicking up wakes like speedboats, all of which emerged soaked and coated irreparably with salt, but driven nonetheless by elated people wearing maniacal grins:

The most stunning vast empty lovely place on earth, on the Utah/Nevada border a few miles west of the salt flats on a back road only a short way from the Interstate. We saw pronghorn antelope, an eagle wheeling slowly overhead, and immeasurable distances in a great stillness where there was no one but us: